Back to the Basics of Mate Choice: The Evolutionary Importance of Darwin’s Sense of Beauty
Back to the Basics of Mate Choice: The Evolutionary Importance of Darwin’s Sense of Beauty
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10.1086/711781
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2020-11
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R. L. Rodríguez
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R. L. Rodríguez
对于择偶的进化，有一个简单而普遍的解释，它既不依赖于从偏爱某些潜在伴侣中获得的利益，也不依赖于顺从偏好的遗传相关性（但这有助于建立这种利益和相关性）。配偶选择必然产生于竞争，以参与调节性互动的强大但有区别的奖励机制。要想进一步理解择偶的进化，就必须分析调控择偶表达的认知-情感机制的主观本质。一个关键的机制可能是美感这种感觉的功能是奖励对有吸引力的物体的注意和参与。任何一种动物，只要其行为和决策是受情绪和感觉机制所调节的，就可能具有美感。被认为是美丽的竞争参与大脑产生的，自上而下的影响感知和主观体验，增加了多种方式来提高装饰吸引力。在本文中，我讨论了涉及美感的配偶选择的进化后果以及如何测试它。
There is a simple and general explanation for the evolution of mate choice that does not rely on benefits to be gained from favoring some potential mates over others, nor on ornament-preference genetic correlations (but that can help establish such benefits and correlations). Mate choice necessarily arises from competition to engage the powerful but discriminating reward mechanisms that regulate sexual interactions. Progress in understanding the evolution of mate choice will come from analyzing the subjective nature of the cognitive-emotional mechanisms that regulate its expression. A key mechanism may be the sense of beauty—the feeling whose function it is to reward attention to, and engagement with, attractive objects. Any animal whose behavior and decision-making are regulated by mechanisms of emotion and feeling may possess the sense of beauty. Competition to be perceived as beautiful engages brain-generated, top-down influences on perception and subjective experience, adding manifold ways to improve ornament attractiveness. In this paper, I discuss the evolutionary consequences of mate choice involving the sense of beauty and how to test for it.